This page is a special continued from the February 2011 post. Dedicated to John and Heatherann 2 people who did it Gods way. And to all the people in gods family who helped make it special for them!
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| Never, not in a million years will John ever get married! |
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| First we flew in... |
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| "Turn left" he said "Turn left!" |
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| The OTHER LEFT!! |
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Aim for the flat concrete thing down there!
NO Turn around your going the wrong way!
Look out for the Oh nevermind. |
We all met up together and planned everything out for the next couple of days. That was the first mistake, Never plan anything when your dealing with John! The thought was first, we get settled then the next day we do a little cruse around the local malls, and have a good chance to get to know everyone better. Then we have a couple days to do the tourist things, have the wedding snap some pictures. John and I could visit a brewery for the tour while the girls get all done up everyone gets together and says I do, I hope so, and I dunno if I should!
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When waiting for your ship to come in make sure it was not this one!
I never could figure out why it never made it back to me! |
Boy guess I forgot that you NEVER make plans when John is involved, and his new found bride is EVEN WORSE!
First the papers were still not in order, so shopping would have to be rescheduled. That got canceled altogether so Marianne, Carolynn and I went out shopping in TO. Guys if you ever go shopping in TO have your parts removed violently before hand it will be less painful that way!
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Nothing like having a good getaway car ready before getting married,
Wonder if they would mind if I took it out for a spin or two?! |
Shopping in TO
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First the drive to the first shopping mall
(while we still believed that the plans were still active)
NOTE: the traffic in the GTA on the highway |
The first mall was nice like any normal big city mall. A wall mart, a couple big box stores and a few "man stores" (places with games, gadgets or gizmoes!) and a pet store that I was forbidden to go anywhere near.
I could have been left alone in that mall and been ok for a couple of hours.
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What the heck is a movator?
it is a conveyor belt for people who are too inept to use an escalator. |
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| We are almost there! |
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| It's over there! |
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Get a picture of Dorie
4 attempts at getting Dorie and this is the best.
She doesn't like having her picture taken. |
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Another funny fellow
Swimming in the Monster tank! |
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| I liked this little yellow guy. |
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| Marianne with her favorite food SHRIMP! |
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| Carolynn. Yes she is camera shy. |
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If you don't pay your bill on time
they have you carry the world.
It would be the constant shower
on the Jubblies that worried me. |
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Me and CHOCOLATE DIVINITY CAKE.
2 forks and only one mouth.
Man was I stuffed after this.
And Highly caffeinated
Can you say Sugar RUSH! |
We said quiet? Oh we forgot the Elephant stampede, the gorillas, and the occasional thunderstorm. Anyone in the spy business. this is the place for a clandestine meeting because no one could record anything clearly. You cannot even have a clear conversation at the same table.
Mall # 2 had a old navy store that the girls loved. After that it was WOMEN STORE HEAVEN. You must be a woman to go here. Guys you will wish for a painful and untimely demise!
NOTE to women: if you take a man to a mall like this he better be getting something special from you when you get home.
On the plus side there was 1 guy store it was EB games, the store was the size of a broom closet!
After messing around here we were all tired and cranky Carolynn wanted to take us to see the falls. Since everything else that day went to hell we figured why not.
The Niagara Falls at night.
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| Marianne looking at the falls |
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Art wondering
"Why the heck am I here? |
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| Carolynn's cat Mitiza |
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| Just watching me watching you. |
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| Woke up to see this fellow circling the yard in front of our window |
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max zoom max cleanup and everything and this is the best shot of the second one.
Still nice to see first thing in the morning. |
Outside the window on a nice cold February morning, The neighbor's house and the vineyards across the street.
We spent a few days enjoying the hottub, and watched some movies. Carolynn seems to have a thing for Christmas movies. I had an opportunity to see some kids movies that I wanted to see and no one could give me heck for it.
Wedding Preparations the day before!
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Supposed to be the bouquet.
I liked it but, Nope, something else would have to do |
The final preparations went as well as the starting preparations. We booked the happy couple to be a hotel room so they wouldn't need to commute. (I cannot imagine a three hour or more trip on public transit from one end of the GTA to the other.) I stayed behind when Carolynn and Marianne went to pick them up from the bus.
Fly in the Ointment!
Introduce Daniel; (we didn't know about this). We booked one room hotel with 2 beds. We now had 3 people. Issue # one. Someone didn't listen to instructions and thought they had 2 hotel rooms. Good thing I didn't go along to get them, as there are not enough seats in Carolynn's car!
We head back out after the girls come and get me, (someone is as mad as a wet hen!) The place we had planned on having dinner at is closed already. Everyone is short tempered and cranky. The bride to be is turning into bridezilla! arggg! Art is here to the rescue. Grab John and off to the world of Tim Hortons Coffee!
Couple of cups later and everything is calmed down a touch.
Dan is on some kind of "only natural organic vagen" crap diets that make me want to order a nice thick porterhouse blue rare and eat it right in front of him with a 1/4 chicken on the side! Sorry Dan, but God said: Eat meat! Who am I to argue? Now if you are a Vegetable-tarian, please don't be offended, but I am not. So eat meat and stuff the sprouts!
Sorry, back to the story. Anyhow no one could decide on dinner so it was coffee for me, tea for John and a good long chat.
Day two (the big day)
Marianne and Carolynn set up in the hotel with Heather to check out the size on the wedding dress that they found. Which, thank God, fit and needed no real alterations. Dan found the hotel guest computer and was off in the world of Facebook. John and I wandered off to the local Subway for a bite and a coffee. It was here that I found out about Issue # 2: Dave, John's friend from way back, couldn't make the trip, because his wife had the stomach flu and was up all night long. We now had no officiator. Since Issue #3: the official paperwork was still MIA. We now had a whole new ball of issues. Extra unknown guest, a bride and groom who were not legally allowed to get married, and no official for the "I Dos". We now had a mock-u-matrmony. So it was back to the hotel for the groom to get into the penguin suit and off to see what we could do.
First since we had it all planned the girls went off to do a spa thing. The guys were shipped off to do a "brewery tour". Note if planning a tour thing for guys, make sure it actually involves something bigger than a corner pub! We had a nice but overpriced lunch, the three of us talked about God and helped Dan with some understandings. After lunch we talked to the bartender, John explained to Dan how beer is made since the tour was 4 big stainless steel vats and a bunch of pipes. Held my interest for... what was I talking about again?
We then went for a walk there was a motorcycle shop across the street and a music store down a couple of blocks. But since it was Sunday all we could do is look into the windows and try to keep from freezing in the wind. The motorcycle shop had some nice foreign job in the window and a couple of antique bikes on display, we stood around and oogled the bikes for a bit and continued on our stroll.
AT LONG LAST
It is now time to get these two love birds together!
Remember Feb 14 (middle of winter) Outdoors wedding! DRUMROLL PLEASE! or perhaps taps?
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The Vows, Guess the happy couple
never figured on saying anything |
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| The new Bouquet |
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I thought this spot would have been nicer.
But we stood in the wide open field where the
wind could freeze everyone half to death!
Nevermind the foot of snow we all stood in. |
Everyone said there vows, Dan acted as the minister, I acted as best man. We had a laugh and piled into the car (remember the one with not enough seats, I got shoehorned into the hatchback) and it was off for the official photo shoot.
UN-Official Photo Shoot
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| The new couple(?) |
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| Statue of some guy, doing something great enough to get a statue on top of a column, in the middle of a park for. |
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| The couple hold hands |
And after a few more seconds of everyone freezing we all pile into the car for a trip to the little church. I guess it would not be a wedding without a church! Since this is the smallest wedding in Canada we went to the smallest church in Canada.
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| Gee it was built the same time I was! |
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| Well no goofy Church signs here! |
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| Everyone pile in to the church |
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| Get out of this wind! |
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Lets see, the couple, Marianne myself Carolynn,
the photographer and clueless. Er Dan.
All piled into a church the size of a bathroom stall! |
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The couple holding hands again,
that or they are checking for frostbite |
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| "Ok this is a raid everyone out of the church!" |
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| The bride emerges |
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| And into the wind! |
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| Quick John grab her before the wind blows her away! |
Thankfully that was it for the photography! Carolynn had another surprise up her sleeve yet for us.
DINNER! or as I call it; the last supper of a bachelor!
It was this quaint little restaurant great food grand prices. The whole place probably seated 25 so we sort of stuck out like a sore thumb but we had a good time! Everyone in the restaurant said congratulations and whatnot. It was fun and another round of "Thank you Carolynn" is due.
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| So many choices on the menu. |
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| Everyone was still defrosting |
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| It is the deer in the headlights look. |
We all ate a fantastic dinner, then it was time for the cake cutting ceremony. The waiter brought us some plates and a knife from the kitchen. The jokes about handing John a sharp knife ran around for a second and we sacrificed the cake.
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Some Cake repair was needed
before it was Sacrificed |
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The Cake
You can almost hear it whimpering
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| Getting ready for the cutting |
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Enough pictures guys
just let us cut the darn thing! |
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The couple Share the first bite.
One of those silly wedding things that I never understood but whatever. |
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| The end of the cake as we knew it! |
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Marianne had a different desert
and it was as yummy as it looked! |
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| but there was no first bite for me! |
The next morning Marianne and I piled on a bus for the airport and then on a plane, a quick visit with the folks and the next morning it was back to the cow house for more snow shoveling!
The boy did a nice job watching over the house and Marianne made him an afghan blanket for his help.
You can visit
her blog for pictures of other work she does and
Carolynn's blog for her take on the events detailed here. Hope you enjoyed it!
